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Poster:
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grendelschoice |
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May 22, 2009 01:41:20pm |
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GratefulDead
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Re: Greatest Dead moment of all time? |
That's a real open-ender of a question. Just about impossible, but i'd at least have to divide it into stuff I witnessed live and stuff I've heard on tape,...
Ultimate Dead moment(s) for me when I was there would have to be two: the ST STEPHEN breakout at MSG in 1983, for the sheer crowd madness of it; and strictly musically speaking it would be the sublime transition (I still say the best they ever did) of SUGAR MAG>SCARLET from the Alpine show I was at in July 1989.
and for wish-I-was-there-but-wasn't, I gotta go with Jerry's final solo w/the band in tow from EYES at DeKalb, Ill. 10/29/77....that rush of brilliance is to me what the Dead were really about when at their finest.